A Thousand Tiny Gods B-Team: Season 1, Session 13 – An Offer of Adventure Dramatis Personae Adelphin “Adel” Jean-Baptiste (played by L.A.): Godling of Werethekau and Baron Samedi. Machiavellian meddler. Power unto herself. Adelphin can kill with a glance, manipulate magic as if she were born to it (and she was), and doesn’t seem to […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Even More Skill Sets for Specialists
Here are a few new skill sets (per GURPS Action 4: Specialists) that I came up with for my own games. Gadgeteer Here are a few more options for gadgeteer. Miraclemaker 25 points Prerequisite: Medicine. You’re a Quick Gadgeteer (p. B57) with anything remotely medical related. Ordinary repairs (e.g., fixing a malfunctioning dialysis machine) or […]
Continue readingA Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 13 – Let’s Get Physical
A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 12 – How Bizarre, How Bazaar Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” Parker […]
Continue readingA Thousand Tiny Gods B-Team: Season 1, Session 13 – An Offer of Adventure
A Thousand Tiny Gods B-Team: Season 1, Session 12 – Heart and Soul Dramatis Personae Adelphin “Adel” Jean-Baptiste (played by L.A.): Godling of Werethekau and Baron Samedi. Machiavellian meddler. Power unto herself. Adelphin can kill with a glance, manipulate magic as if she were born to it (and she was), and doesn’t seem to be […]
Continue readingA Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 12 – How Bizarre, How Bazaar
A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 11 – The Man That Wasn’t There Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Compromised Player Characters
One of the hardest things to do when running a game is to GM a compromised PC. (Compromised in this instance is a player character who is mind controlled, possessed, or replaced by a shapeshifter.) Taking over the character’s actions is going to result in the other PCs being suspicious so that won’t work – […]
Continue readingA Thousand Tiny Gods B-Team: Season 1, Session 12 – Heart and Soul
A Thousand Tiny Gods B-Team: Season 1, Session 11 – Riptide Dramatis Personae Adelphin “Adel” Jean-Baptiste (played by L.A.): Godling of Werethekau and Baron Samedi. Machiavellian meddler. Power unto herself. Adelphin can kill with a glance, manipulate magic as if she were born to it (and she was), and doesn’t seem to be able to […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – March & April 2022
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. Still working on that novel. The ending is proving hard – I know what I want it to be but getting there and doing it right is eating time. I currently have one outstanding contract: GURPS Dungeon […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: How I Prepare Adventures
I’ve had a lot of experience running campaigns (both of the GURPS and non-GURPS variety) and have spent the better part of 28 years being a GM to a variety of groups in a variety of ways. After all this time I’ve learned a lot – which means I messed up a lot. No one […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: How I Designed An Adventure
Guest Post by Kalzazz I came up with and ran an adventure last Monday, so here is how it went. Around 6 PM identify that opportunity existed for game, ping potential players. By 630 PM I had identified players were available so I requested characters. By 7 had at least one character chosen, who was […]
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